Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 160 - Shadow Silk

Then again, with how temperamental cats were, this was pretty much the equivalent of a ticking time bomb.

“I sure hope Pebbles doesn’t get jealous,” Long Di muttered to himself as he went on his way once more.

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“You’re pretty brave to have owned a cat,” expressed Shen Ling as she kept a wary eye on the Shidashi Mao.

“Others don’t?” I’m pretty sure they had cats in ancient China. I mean, I watched Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat. You can Google that if you want.

We were making our way through Thousand Emo Valley at the moment. I wish I could get some answers for what happened not long ago, but I’ll probably get my answer in the fullness of time.

“People are too afraid of Shidashi Maos and anything and everything related to them is rejected or shunned,” she replied with a shake of her head.

“Cats are A-holes,” I couldn’t argue that point.

I’m somewhere in the neighbourhood of 93% of the belief that all cat owners are closet masochists. You can’t have a pet like that without deriving some pleasure from pain, shunning, or the occasional death stare for simply existing. My old world really did mess me up.

“They’re adorable A-holes where I’m from, so we kinda give em a pass,” I said with a shrug.

“The Shidashi Maos are too much a symbol of fear, so we don’t find either of them… c-cute.”

She found it difficult to use the words Shidashi Mao and cute in the same sentence.

“Do you know why everyone just went batshit crazy not long ago?” Long Di asked while looking around Thousand Emo Valley with a wandering eye.

She shook her head to indicate that she didn’t. She then asked, “Are you sure it’s fine to just leave them be?”

“It’ll be hard to get them to comply, considering they’re all busy being insufferable brain tumours.”

“Busy being what?” Shen Ling wasn’t familiar with some of the words he was using.

“Nothing,” I looked around until I spotted one decrepit building that had the word shop on it. Well, ain’t that convenient.

“What are you looking for, exactly?” she finally asked.

“A clothes store.”

As you can see, I have my

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